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  1. Kahuna

    Show us your most precious vintage item .

    Wow! What a wonderful guitar! Nice to see that it ended up in the hands of someone who actually plays it instead of just viewing it as an investment.
  2. Kahuna

    The Perfect Desk.

    I'll resurrect this old thread with a picture of my "perfect" desk. I know it probably isn't big enough to serve in a real office but it suits my Hawaiiana themed room quite well.
  3. Kahuna

    If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

    I would have to go with the lovely Dorothy Lamour. Beauty and a sense of humor, now that's a great combination.
  4. Kahuna

    Show us your TIES

    I've noticed that out of the 40 or so 30's & 40's vintage ties in my collection probably 80% are primarily brown or burgundy colored. These were found in various places so it doesn't just reflect the tastes of one owner whose collection I happened to find. I like other colors but burgundy &...
  5. Kahuna

    American Roots Music

    The Juneberry site that Feraud mentioned is a great place to start. Here's a few more urls. Hours of happy listening here: www.archive.org/details/78rpm honkingduck.com/mc/ wfmu.org/playlists/TE mikesnoise.typepad.com/vvictrola/ westernswing78.blogspot.com www.dailymotion.com/redhotjazz...
  7. Kahuna

    Unpopular music opinions

    I know he's recently deceased and all but I never could grasp the so-called brilliance of Captain Beefheart. He was beloved by male record store clerks everywhere but his music was always just a little too weird for weirdness sake for me.
  8. Kahuna

    American Roots Music

    If you're just beginning to look into this type of music almost anything on the Yazoo, Dust-to-Digital, Arhoolie, Field Recorder's Collective, & Old Hat labels is well worth looking into.
  9. Kahuna

    Unpopular music opinions

    I was the music director for the local FM station for about 3 years and although my primary focus was jazz I had to listen to an awful lot (emphasis on awful) of incoming indie rock. I finally had to give it up because my personal tastes conflicted with the need of the station to stay...
  10. Kahuna

    Unpopular music opinions

    I can agree with that. I was a music director at our local radio station for several years and, even though I had to listen to tons of bad music, there is still good music being made. Even though my musical tastes lie mostly in the 20's and 30's, it always gets my goat when someone like R...
  11. Kahuna

    Show us your TIES

    Pardon me for going slightly off topic and not showing an actual tie here but I love this hand-painted display signage I found in a thrift store a couple years ago. You may have seen this before a few pages back in the context of my tie collection but I thought it deserved its own post. When I...
  13. Kahuna

    Unpopular music opinions

    I'm not so sure that he did much for the careers of Arthur Crudup, Big Mama Thornton, etc. as singers. At best he might have gotten them royalties for their songs but the singers themselves remained pretty obscure. Once Elvis did a song in the 50's it was an Elvis song as far as most of the...
  14. Kahuna

    Show us your radios!

    Beautiful job! Great restoration and well worth all the hours of time you put into it.
  15. Kahuna

    How did you find the lounge?

    I was curious about the Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown LA, did a Google search and ended up here.
  16. Kahuna

    Show us your TIES

    All right, since you asked, here's another bunch of ties from my thrift store finds. Left to right: Haband, Arrow, "King Size" by Spur, "Sir" by Botany Left to right: no tag, Wembley, no tag, "The Californian" by Sunshine
  17. Kahuna

    How much would you pay for a vintage necktie?

    I guess I have to count myself among the thrift misers. I don't think I've ever paid more than a dollar for a vintage tie. I do go to an awful lot of thrift stores, yard & estate sales though. The bargains are still out there in the tie world. Not so much for vintage guitars unfortunately.
  19. Kahuna

    San Diego Velo Cult Tweed bike ride

    If I'd known about this earlier I would have posted it in events but, since my friend rode in it and I learned about it after-the-fact, I thought those of us from colder climates might enjoy seeing some people out in vintage garb on vintage bikes enjoying the California sunshine. Not all...
  20. Kahuna

    Guitars

    Twenty years ago they could still be found for cheap. Since you can't play them like an ordinary guitar people didn't know what to do with them. One guitarist found his hanging on the wall in an old lady's home with plastic flowers coming out of the sound hole. Unfortunately I missed those...
  21. Kahuna

    Clifton's Cafeteria in Los Angeles

  22. Kahuna

    Show us your TIES

    Here's a few favorites I picked up over the years in thrift stores. Most of these came from one thrift store in Covina, CA where they would put about 50 ties in a bag and sell them for $2.95. Since moving to Idaho I haven't been near so lucky. Vintage ties and Hawaiian shirts are much harder...
  23. Kahuna

    Vintage advertisements?

    I guess one reason I've always been attracted to vintage advertisements is that my dad studied advertising in the 40's. Although he never went into it full time, he did do a bit of freelancing and I remember him being at the drawing board with his airbrush quite a bit when I was a kid. When...

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